Some protesters on Wednesday morning stormed a Shoprite mall in Abuja to protest the attack on Nigerians in South Africa.

The protesters, who appear to have been prevented by the police from attacking the mall, burnt tyres and a billboard along the Abuja-airport road.

Their actions caused a traffic build-up on the Abuja-airport expressway causing diversion of traffic.

Shoprite, a retail shopping outlet of South African origin, has been a major victim of retaliatory attacks by Nigerians.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how Shoprite malls were attacked in Lagos and Ibadan on Tuesday.

The federal government on Tuesday night cautioned Nigerians against retaliatory attacks on South African businesses.

President Muhammadu Buhari also on Tuesday dispatched a special envoy to South Africa to protest the attack on Nigerians in that country.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/350505-just-in-xenophobia-protesters-target-abuja-shoprite-burn-tyres-billboard.html

The president is back in the country... Yet he have not addressed this issue on air

Failure...

Some pics from the scene

Wow this is getting serious o... funny enough ph Asaba and SE states where you have Igbos are calm

joeprince23:
Wow this is getting serious o... funny enough ph Asaba and SE states where you have Igbos are calm

That of Onitsha closed earlier yesterday because I passed that route, I would check later in the day if go through that side

and am planning to go to lugbe axis anytime from now. Na to hold on till everything calm oo.

Gbege don dey shele small small so

This still can't solve the problem on ground..they should use their head

joeprince23:
Wow this is getting serious o... funny enough ph Asaba and SE states where you have Igbos are calm

One would have expected worse from those in that area since the constitute majority of the Nigerian businessmen in SA..

Where is the tyre? billboard?

joeprince23:
Wow this is getting serious o... funny enough ph Asaba and SE states where you have Igbos are calm

SE and SS are not prone to such violence.
Despite the fact that their people are said to be most affected by all this in SA

keryj:


SE and SS are not prone to such violence.
Despite the fact that their people are said to be most affected by all this in SA

So it is only online they make noise?